Sheriff to seize municipality vehicles

January 21 2009 at 07:32am

The sheriff at Theunissen in the Free State plans to seize five vehicles of the Masilonyana Local Municipality to pay the municipality's debt to three companies, the Democratic Alliance said on Tuesday.

The auction of the vehicles was advertised to take place on February 6 at the sheriff's office in Theunissen, said Phillip Botha, DA councillor at the municipality.

He said this was not the only financial woe the municipality was facing. The Johannesburg High Court ordered the municipality last year to pay monies, apparently about R1-million, it owed to the Municipal Pension Fund.

Botha said the money was allegedly deducted from municipal worker's salaries but never paid to the fund.